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Date:      Fri, 5 Sep 2008 21:35:26 +0200
From:      Milan Obuch <milan@dino.sk>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, pyunyh@gmail.com
Subject:   Re: MSI Wind Notebook's network interfaces
Message-ID:  <200809052135.27899.milan@dino.sk>
In-Reply-To: <200809051643.52950.freebsd-net@dino.sk>
References:  <200809050945.09276.freebsd-net@dino.sk> <20080905082322.GA66951@cdnetworks.co.kr> <200809051643.52950.freebsd-net@dino.sk>

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On Friday 05 September 2008 16:43:51 Milan Obuch wrote:
> On Friday 05 September 2008 10:23:22 Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 09:45:08AM +0200, Milan Obuch wrote:
>
> [ snip ]
>
> >  > In 7.0-RELEASE wired network interface did not work, but after
> >  > upgrading to 7-STABLE (now 7.1-PRERELEASE) it work with re driver.
> >  > There is just one small uglyness - it's link level address (MAC) is
> >  > 00:00:00:00:00:00. Needless to say, Windows initializes this to
> >  > 00:1d:92:59:f5:8b. I can change it with 'ifconfig re0 ether
> >  > 00:1d:92:59:f5:8b', but I would rather let the driver to find the
> >  > correct MAC.

[ snip ]

> >  > If anybody had some idea how to fix MAC address initialization for
> >  > wired
> >
> > Would you try attached patch?
>
> I tried on freshly csup'ped head and it works. Ethernet link address is now
> correctly set. Great! It looks like a kind of magic at first glance :)
>
> >  > interface or what driver to use for wireless interface (I will
> >  > probably try NDIS, but my experience in this area is limited and
> >  > previous succesfull try none), I am all ears.
>
> Could anybody comment on wireless interface?
>

I csup'ped 7.1-PRERELEASE, apply this patch and it work just like in HEAD.
Just FYI.

Regards,
Milan



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